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Show WRIGHT PATTERSON History Will Judge Debacle ADMIRAL HALSEY. in his memoirs mem-oirs published in Collier's, calls a spade a spade in denouncing the sacrificing of Admiral Kimmel and General Short as the goats for the Pearl Harbor disaster. For Pearl Harbor. Admiral Halsey vaguely blames the American people. But it was not the American people or congress who employed an alien German to erect greatly needed radar equipment, and then countenanced coun-tenanced needless delay in its erection; erec-tion; it was not the American people or congTess who failed to give the commanders vital information. The American people or congress were not responsible for Pearl Harbor. |